Quotes About Leadership

As a leader, you need to keep the main thing—the mission

Friendships make all the difference in surviving the inevitable crises of leadership.

anger in a leader rarely produces good results.

Leaders aren't just born. They're made. You can never stop learning. You can't lead from the back. You have to take care of your people first.

A leader should always approach a crisis from the perspective that God has something to teach him or her. Adversity is a pathway to refinement.

But it's been a great, humbling - and I've been very honored to have the opportunity to serve and to lead and to be the representative of our soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines who are in Washington. And it's been the greatest honor of my life.

The New Dealers have all left Washington to make way for the car dealers.

We didn't come here to become Washington, we came here to change Washington.

Americans expect us to go to Washington for the right reason, and not just to mingle with the right people.

There's really a fundamental political corruption problem that put Washington completely out of touch with the people.

I do not want to stay in Washington.

Du Bois marked a great stage in the history of Negro struggles when he said that Negroes could no longer accept the subordination which Booker T. Washington had preached.

Most of the people who are in elective office in Washington, D.C., they have held public office before. How's that workin' for you?

Washington's character was rock solid. He came to stand for the new nation and its republican virtues, which was why he became our first President by unanimous choice.

When Trump was elected, there were three parties in Washington: the Trump party, the Democratic Party and the Republican Party.

I'm focused on bringing real change to Washington because the career politicians have screwed things up so badly.

I'll always be on the move for peace in the Korean peninsula. If necessary, I will fly straight to Washington. I will go to Beijing and Tokyo and, if the conditions allow, to Pyongyang as well.

I call Washington 'the city of the perishable.'

Governmental intervention and personal responsibility are not mutually exclusive issues, but they do frame a 'do it ourselves' vs. 'what are you doing for us' debate. For the black community, that's a debate that's been raging at least as far back as the W.E.B. Du Bois, Booker T. Washington philosophical grudge matches.

We have a paralysis in Washington that's not serving our country. We have to address these issues.

Like Marco Rubio in 2010, I'm not going to back down from the Washington establishment. They are the problem, not the solution.

It teaches us how to run our lives individually. How to run our families, how to run our churches. But it teaches us how to run all our public policy and everything in society. And that's the reason, as your congressman, I hold the Holy Bible as being the major directions to me of how I vote in Washington, D.C., and I'll continue to do that.

Enough of these little kitty cats we keep sending to Washington. David Dewhurst will compromise every day in the U.S. Senate... It's what he's done every day in state government.

The presidency made John Adams an old man long before there was television. As early as the nation's first contested presidential election, with Adams and Jefferson running to succeed Washington, you had a brutal, ugly, vicious campaign that was divisive and as partisan as anything we're experiencing today.